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mjc506

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From: Southampton, UK

Registered: 2010-04-07

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Command line nvidia-settings output.

First off, I'm not sure if this thread should be here or in the hardware section, but since the issue is with the software, i've stuck it here for the moment.

Since nvclock doesn't work with my fermi cards (2 x gtx470s in sli) I'm using the cli of nvidia-settings in a munin plugin. After some faffing around getting the env set correctly and sufficient xhost permissions, everything is working, apart from the clock speeds.

nvidia-settings -tq [gpu:0]/gpucurrentclockfreqsstring

should output the current clock frequencies of the gpu. However, all it displays is the lowest frequencies - for me, the output is always

nvclock=50, memclock=135, processorclock=101

even when the card is loaded (unigine benchmark) and the nvidia-settings gui shows the correct (higher) clocks. gpucurrentperflevel does change, so this is what I'm using at the moment, although I would prefer actual clock readings rather than 0-3.

Is this experienced by anyone else with nvidia (fermi or not) cards? And should I file a bug for arch, or upstream?

Thanks